#azgaar's fantasy map generator

[virto-the-collector]

My collection 004:

Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator!

It's this cool website that generates a random fantasy map which includes everything from mountains to rivers to cities to states to religions to military to population to routes to temperatures to etc.

It's a really cool tool and you can play around with it a lot, I personally found it a neat thing to get some ideas on how my fantasy worlds or planets could look like.

Also it's free so this is not sponsored.

And yes, I do consider it being in my collection bcuz I have a shortcut for it saved on my Google homepage. (If I have it saved somewhere, it's in my collection.)

[traderotales]

A map of the continent in Souls of Black, Dridon

[railway-fox]

Im back Tumblr with custom map Tabaluga world (in style Europa universalis 4) I started with a continent resembling Europe only circular (There are several ready-made countries (eastern, northern, southern Europe) on it

The visual location of the continent (there standing "carrot nose". By the way, he got up there in vain, they will knock him out quickly from there, well, this is a bit of history!!!)

[iwannarunawayandbeapirate]

GM Resources

Here are my favourite websites that help me prepare and run TTRPG sessions (I mainly play D&D 5e but many of these will also work for other games). All of these are either completely free or have a free base version.

2-Minute-Tabletop: Lots of free tokens, maps and more! Also contains some content you have to pay for, but the free selection is usually enough for me. Very useful, especially if you're running online games. You can even customise the tokens' colours.

Lost Atlas: A huge selection of free maps, with filters to help you find exactly what you're looking for.

Falindrith's D&D Monster Maker: Create custom D&D monster statblocks. Lots of customisation options, from spellcasting to legendary actions. Very useful if you want to create a unique BBEG, but too complex to use for minions imo.

Fantasy Name Generators: You've probably heard of this one before, but it's incredibly useful. Whether you need to quickly come up with some NPC names, figure out what that town is called, or invent an extra riddle because your players solved the puzzle way too quickly, you'll find what you need here. It's very versatile and even has specific name generators for some RPGs!

Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator: This is my favourite world map tool. You can generate a random map and then customize it until it fits for your campaign. You can let it generate country and town names for you or come up with your own.

Dungeon Scrawl: Create your own digital battle maps. Base version is free, but you can pay for a premium version if you want more features. Not as quick as simply downloading an existing map, but you will be able to create exactly the kind of map you want.

I Loot The Body: Great if you need to quickly generate loot, treasure, or NPCs (I mainly use it for the latter). Compatible with D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2e.

Nuudel: Wonderful tool for planning the date and time of your next session. Easy to use and it works very well. If you make a poll with it, make sure to select "All voters can modify any vote", otherwise it can lead to problems if people want to edit their own answer. The website is German but you can switch to a different language in the drop-down menu in the top right corner.

These are just the ones I know off the top of my head, if I remember or discover more websites/tools I will update this post.

Feel free to reblog and share your own resources!

[the-constellation-archive]

Using Azgaar's fantasy map generator to create our innerworld. What it looks like so far >>>

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[novella-november]

If you like to be able to visualize your world but don't want to draw a map by hand, I really enjoy fiddling with this to create my own original planet for my fantasy series!

You can either randomly-generate landmasses and names, or create your own completely custom ones! There's also a bunch of different filters and labeling options so you can completely customize everything you can imagine!

You have the option of saving your maps to your hardrive to back them up, and I highly reccomend doing so so you can always come back and keep updating it if you enjoy it :)

[iamtechnos-world]

Map of my fantasy setting (Valedor).

Made using Azgaar's fantasy map generator, looking pretty awesome I think!

What do you all think?

[that-one-i-think]

I MADE A MAP OF TU'LA

This is entirely based off of my own headcannons with essentially no knowledge

These maps are what Tu'la looked like before the King of Toraichi took over

Biomes Maps - Green = Different temperature Jungles. Browns = Deserts and Savanna White = Ice

States. Red = The Kingdom of Toraichi, Yellow = Desert (Mostly uninhabited with nomadic tribes), Stripes = Main Menphia Tribes. They were found all over the desert but their main areas are the stripe

A mix of both in a different forms

All of these were made using Azgaar's fantasy map generator! Let me know if y'all make any maps for MCD, please tag me!

[jackhelps]

jack, você conhece algum site em que a gente possa fazer aquelas imagens de mapas fictícios, colocar os nomes e tal?

Oi, anon! Dei uma pesquisada pra você e encontrei esses:

Songs of the Eons, é um software, então tem que baixar.

Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator, é um site e você pode customizar no desktop.

Mewo2 Fantasy Map Generator, um site onde você altera alguns dados e ele gera o mapa.

Mediaval Fantasy City Generator, um site também e você ajusta as preferências.

Mapgen4, site também mas pelo que vi, não tem como adicionar nomes.

Hextml, esse é um site onde você faz um mapa com uma grade hexagonal. É bem mais simples.

MapTool, também é um software.

Deepnight Games, tem versão de software ou no site.

Dungeon Scrawl, site.

PixelSnake, é um software específico pra criar linhas de transporte público.

Tenessine Creator, um site pra criar mapa de linha de metrô.

São esses os que eu encontrei que são gratuitos. A maioria segue uma linha mais de fantasia, mas acredito que dá pra aproveitar mesmo assim. Espero que ajude!

[rotting-ink]

Have you tried:

Azgaar's Fantasy map generator? It's free and fantastic for visualizing and world building. It can take a bit to go through the options, it It's a fantastic resource.

They even have a coat of arms maker

I'm good! Thanks though! It's more of the history than the geography and I don't need to alter any geography.

[rosebudshifter]

hi! do you know any sites to create fantasy maps? I’ve looking for one so I can customize my script, but I know literally nothing about those sites :( btw I >>>love<<< your script templates, specially the disney one. You’re so talented!! Thank you in advance <3

i do actually!!

the one that i have the most experience with is this website called inkarnate. the pro version is quite intensive but you can still do a lot with the free version. plus they’re constantly updating it, which is cool.

(found this off google, but this is how intensive/detailed you can get)

another, if you just want the landscape aspect of mapmaking is Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator. i have only used it a couple of times, but it’s fun to play around with.

there are countless other ones online, but these are the ones i’ve personally used for various things.

have fun!

(and thank you for the kind words, got me blushing and giggling)

[sunflowerquill]

Some (Free) Writing Resources I Use

I've noticed that half the writing resources I see recommended are usually pretty limited without paying, so allow me to list off some of the completely free ones I've used throughout the years:

Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator

Literally amazing for creating maps, it's so detailed and has a wide variety of options. I made the map for my book using it by modifying one of its randomly-generated templates. You definitely don't have to be an artist to use it but I did personally add little details to mine via hand later. Nevertheless, highly recommend.

Scribus

If you're formatting your own book, Scribus is basically the free version of Adobe InDesign. It has a bit more of a learning curve and doesn't have all of InDesign's capabilities, but it's just perfect for book formatting. I formatted three whole books on it by myself and they came out great. You've just gotta have a bit of patience until you get used to it.

Fantasy Name Generators

Ok yeah, this seems obvious since it's a very well-known website. I often use it as inspiration without directly taking names from it (since the names I put into my books almost always bear some sort of meaning), but then I looked at the sheer number of categories and HOLY MOLY. It may be called Fantasy Name Generators but you'll find names for everything there.

PureWriter

Well, this is awkward, because this writing program actually has a premium version so it's not completely free... Should I feel like a hypocrite? Maybe, but I think the free version is more than enough for most writers. It's on mobile and PC; mind you, I've only ever used the mobile version, but I'm really satisfied with it. Even without Premium there are no ads, the formatting options are a delight, and it's just really handy for writing on the go (because Google Docs and Word are atrocious for writing on mobile, fight me on this). Anyway, very neat program.

WordHippo

By far my favourite online dictionary (aside from the more 'professional' ones like Cambridge) because it provides you with quite a lot of options: from synonyms and antonyms to words that rhyme with the word you've put in! As someone whose books include some lore-important poetry here and there, it's been a real lifesaver whenever I find myself stuck.

HeightComparison

So... this may seem weird. It's a really small detail, but since I am also an artist who depicts her characters, I think that knowing your characters' heights (especially in comparison to one another) can really help with writing all kinds of interractions. Like the classic "someone stands on their tiptoes for a kiss" or "this person has to duck when passing through a doorway". I used it to measure my characters' sizes compared to a building and then used that information to determine the size of another being that appears in the books. Pretty fun stuff.

Anyway, that's all. Speaking of free resources, I recently discovered Carrd and it's pretty neat for making a simple site to display your books. Check it out! :)

Toodles <3

[quietsnooze]

Info dumping about my homebrew DnD world ahead!

Eidholme is a low magic fantasy DnD campaign setting wherein magic is very limited, feared, and persecuted. The continent is split into 5 kingdoms & 2 empires.

Here's a visualization using Azgaar's fantasy map generator, then painted by me using Inkarnate to show the landforms:

Long ago, there were racial variations (many of the expected DnD races), but war and mistrust tore apart the continent and drove out many as humans struck down the remaining.

Now, there are heritages in the bloodlines of many current day humans that lie dormant as also magic does

(Basically my way of saying "this is an all human campaign... mostly." When the players get to higher levels, they will manifest traits from their heritages if they want to have that aspect included. Most left that up to me to surprise them!)

The deities are known as Guardians. There are twelve who are revered across the continent in different capacities - the kingdom of the Reamers is highly religious and worships all 12, whereas others pick & choose their preferred "endorsed" Guardians.

The Guardians' sigils I designed:

• Pandor, of Pleasure

• Lilabet, of Patience

• Elnos, of Creation

• Phiphine, of Growth

• Aisling, of Endings

• Cohara, of Mercy

• Bodhi, of Progress

• Llyr, of Dominion

• Niamh, of Hearth-keepers

• Keros, of Justice

• Ashtur, of Aggression

• Ryasis, of Curiosity

The event that caused the humanization of Eidholme was over a millennia ago, but the hurt caused by the End of Magic is more recent - a little more than 200 years prior, with fear and abuse of it at an all time high, magic was almost universally banned across Eidholme.

What was the straw that broke the camel's back? The population does not know, other than it was surrounding the tensions that broke apart the Mountainlands into two empires: Marboke in the north, and Oakham in the south.

(My voice game players know tho! They participated in it in prologue)

The continent shares the equinox and solstice celebrations, but have differing, more local traditions for them. Here’s a calendar I created that shows them! In Launlia for example, the Primavernal is celebrated as the Awakening Festival locally, for Niamh, Guardian of Growth.

Another fun fact about Eidholme: the vast majority of the continent's trees and its ONLY forest exist in Duskhollow. The kingdom is shrouded in mystery, in ancient Woods magic, in protections that keep any out who it doesn't want to be there.

The Woods is alive. It decides.

I have a lot of documents my players can comb through for information at their leisure. This one factually lists information that the PCs would know. It is not necessarily Wiki-level accurate, however, as propaganda is a heck of a thing.

Cantrips aren't exactly rare, but depending on where you are, you wouldn't even want to risk casting one. Privilege allows some of higher station to play around with magic in a badly kept secret. Otherwise, you are licensed or regulated by the governing body on your usage.

And that, of course, is why both of the parties who play in this world stumbled across Wanted posters for their questioning and arrest! "Wanted in connection to blasphemy and magic usage in Launlia", while their allies are "wanted in connection to actions against the Crown"...

For as much as I limited in character creation for lore purposes, I gave back through the same world building. Characters can interact with the world, seeking lost ways of old magics, ancient techniques, connections with the natural world… even be taught new (homebrew) cantrips

This is one of those instances where the PCs fit the trope of “chosen one” levels of power, as few ordinary people are powerful like they are and will be. The catch? That also makes them HUGE targets for backlash. Without the right support, they’ll be on the run… everywhere.

That makes it a very socially driven, political ties sort of campaign story. They also have befriended nomads, who can help them in their own way.

Nomads are, expectedly, nomadic people dissenting of law and homeland. They are expectedly hunted or outlawed for their magic use.

Some places welcome them as a novelty, others allow them under tentative circumstances for services granted (easy to locally wash your hands of it and assign blame to nomads who are long gone by the time you’re found out). Their trust is notoriously difficult to gain.

Why? Because they’ve been lured by royals to perform, only to be mass incarcerated. They’ve been promised sanctuary and found instead themselves given to their enemies. The groups do not inherently trust one another, either- friendship with one doesn’t mean friend to all.

As for beyond the continent… not many know what lies beyond. Those who travel out rarely come back, those who do are driven back by storms and critical failures of their ships. The Brackish Tears is the only kingdom who receives imports from beyond the vast waters.

There's a tale of a Tearsian prince memorialized in statue: E��ghan Griogal - a prince, second son to King Cian and Queen Siobhan, beloved by his people in the 17th century, about 200 years BME (Before magic’s end) or prior to the new age. His romance to the wispy foreigner - had many people talking, some excited in the chattering and others devastated by his betrayal. For he found love at sea, a man whose affinity with water was undeniably clear, closer bonded to it than even the water births of the Reamers would boast.

The lore creates a very interesting challenge for a fantasy world:

- wood is expensive and rare, so describing anything, from building materials to origins of fruit, is adjusted

- gemstones are extremely rare and not mined anywhere anymore as the source died with the elves

- magic is mostly outlawed

I'm currently running two games in this world. One traditional DnD via voice sessions who adventure across the continent, one written/play-by-post mixed with Good Society ttrpg, sandboxed in the Brackish Tears' capital.

Here is the star map and constellations. I have so many documents for my players to chew on, and I’m adding to them constantly.

[teriwrites]

Maps, Maps, Maps!

Irim

Irim is the world in which The Lies in the Legend is set. More specifically, the story so far takes place in the Principality of Sha, which you can see on the southern portion of that central continent there. I would like to formally thank the Azgaar Fantasy Map Generator for all that. My map-making days are largely behind me, I fear.

The Principality of Sha

The Principality of Sha is homeland to Lady Ghislaine Agassi of Selniril. The longest-standing civilization across Irim, its isolationist population is almost unanimously comprised of elves.

There are a couple more maps I've made, which I'll include in various posts where they become more relevant, and then add here to compile the whole set later. But for now, hopefully that'll be enough set-dressing to start with!

[somethingsomethingfrogs]

Part 1: the map

I had a map in mind, created by Azgaar's fantasy map generator, and i actually learned my lesson this time and restricted the map size to 4 regions. The problem while DMing is that I need to use multiple programs to make it work, so i'm centralizing it to Photoshop, since my players sometimes forget how dndbeyond works so using Roll20 or something similar is asking for more problems. Here is the world map (political and biomes):

I noticed that each edited map has a problem with scale/different cropping, here's how the map is supposed to look:

The entire idea is that the players reach specific locations on the map, with each biome corresponding to one of the winners (Grian - desert, Scott - plains, Pearl - woods, Martyn - coast, Scar - ravine/plains). The only problem is that editting the zoomed out map means the text is tiny, I'll try to fix it somehow. I have prepared map markers for events, with the only difficulty being that I need a higher resolution map to make them not pixely.

I'm surprised that there are people interested in this and if you have any suggestions then send them.

[lc-casey]

so yes i did go on hiatus from writeblr for a while BUT i did compile a list of recommended resources so writers, uh come get your juice!

https://lc-casey.tumblr.com/resources-appendix

(pasted below in full under the cut)

Resources Appendix

A simple list of the most useful writing tools and resources I have personally made use of as a writer. My top recommendations are indicated with a ‘🌟’.

Recommended Word Processors and Planning Tools

Scrivener 🌟 - excellent for containing large projects, as well as compiling research and character notes all in one place. My go-to for any project, and highly recommended. It is a paid product (one time, not a subscription) and is worth the cost.

Fantasia Archive 🌟 - great note-taking, planning and worldbuilding tool rolled into one. You can create characters, locations, languages and much more as separate documents, all of which can be linked together for easy reference. Free to use and download and able to support large-scale project notes.

Calmly Writer - a good, and cheap minimalist word processor. A much cheaper option than Scrivener and also a one-off cost. Does not support extensively large projects due to lack of pagination and navigation to other tabs. Can be used online for free.

Ellipsus - online collaboration and editing made easier across multiple drafts. Free to use and designed by writers for writers, with a staunch anti-AI stance. Free to use.

Worldbuilding Tools

Note: these skew towards the Fantasy/Science Fiction realm since I specialise in those genres, but these can be useful across a range of genres and styles.

Azgaar’s Fantasy Map Generator 🌟 - there’s a steep learning curve involved with this tool, but after years of use I simply cannot find a map-making tool that matches it. Azgaar is free, has a Discord server for support and guidance, and is highly customisable no matter what form your map is in. I use this for every fantasy world I create and never fail to find it’s generation tools and customisation amazing. Worth learning your way around, and completely free to use.

World Building Checklist by cru - the most comprehensive worldbuilding template I’ve yet found, centered around questions to spur your imagination. Too extensive to fully complete, but a good way to get thinking about more niche aspects of your world you might not have considered.

Food Timeline 🌟 by Lynne Olver - a great site which provides a timeline of when different foods were first introduced to human diets. Excellent for getting an idea of what food was common when and where. Also has a sortable index.

Culture Template 🌟 - incredibly intricate template for creating new cultures, including questions about food, society, government, traditions and more. 

Character Creation

Behind the Name - a good database of both real and fantastical names. Distinctions are drawn between names verified by the people behind the site, and those submitted by users. Names are sortable by gender, origin, length, and more. 

Fantasy Name Generators 🌟 by Emily - an excellent tool with a wide availability of names across cultures real and imagined, as well as those inspired by different sects of pop culture. Also contains generators for place/item names, and additional tools. The sister site, Roll For Fantasy, includes tools to help create fictional languages, calendars and more. Both are also very helpful for RPF/RPGs.

Family Echo - a site where you can create custom family trees. Helpful for stories defined by/heavily featuring families.

Masterlist of Physical Descriptors by Bryndonovan - a lengthy list detailing descriptive words for appearance, broken down into each individual feature. 

201 Character Archetypes - for those who like to work off tropes or archetypes, this is an alphabetised list of 200 of them. Helpful starting point to spur imagination.

Miscellaneous Tools

Tip of my Tongue - a great tool for finding that word you can’t quite remember.

Writing With Colour - a helpful tumblr blog with resources and advice on writing different cultures and races, with a large index of previously asked questions to explore.

Goblin Tools - an excellent tool for breaking down different processes and the steps involved. Type in whatever you want broken down into steps, and it will generate an ordered list. Great for processes or practices you may be unfamiliar with. 

Resources for Describing Physical Locations - good Tumblr masterlist of locations and different aspects to describe.

Editing/Typesetting Tools

Reedsy 🌟 - you can upload your projects and typeset them as epubs, PDFs and etc for free. Decent online hosting platform as well. Large projects can slow loading times down a bit. Marketplace/networking site to find editors, publishers and more.

(Scrivener and Microsoft Word also have exporting and document transformation options.)

Please let me know about any worthy additions I should make to the list!